owendlamb

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by owendlamb 1y ago
But we do have record that the cross' title was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. God certainly had a special plan for these languages: the language of God's Law, the language of human power, and the language of human wisdom. T
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by owendlamb 2y ago
> It is also worth thinking about what Medieval people place at the very centre of the earth, and therefore the exact centre of the universe. You mean Satan, as depicted in Dante's Inferno, yes? Certainly Satan thinks himself the
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by owendlamb 2y ago
What you say about Jesus' redemption being essential to Christianity is true. But you ask, what forms can this redemption take? Catholics like myself believe that Mary was conceived without sin and remained sinless her whole life by co
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by owendlamb 2y ago
I've posted this before[1], but I have a feeling you'll like Dirt Poor Robins' But Never a Key [2] and the concept album it lives in, Deadhorse. It begins: Algernon You won't need these flowers They've revo
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by owendlamb 2y ago
I encountered this kind of inconsistency with my Android phone, too (Samsung Galaxy S22). I think every time my alarm failed to go off it was because the phone had automatically updated its OS and restarted overnight, and background apps li
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by owendlamb 2y ago
Hey, I think I read that back in high school! Guess I'm a plagiarist. More recently I've been reading some pre-Socratic excerpts with friends, and some Augustine— On Free Choice of the Will and De Musica —on my own. De Musica
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by owendlamb 2y ago
AlbertCory, I appreciate your frankness. I also doubt that any sensory or neural show could prove the existence of the supernatural; but I still believe in the supernatural, merely on the grounds that the natural exists, and I want to tell
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by owendlamb 2y ago
> Meanwhile heaven is pretty bland and the angels come of as a bunch of milquetoasts. You reminded me of that Simpsons bit about Protestant Heaven vs Catholic Heaven: https://youtu.be/-4IletJ7-Tw
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by owendlamb 2y ago
Webster's definition lacks the connotation of incompleteness, but otherwise you're spot on: http://www.websters1913.com/words/Palimpsest I guess it's possible for a palimpsest's erasure to be comple
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by owendlamb 3y ago
The image halfway through the article says the forces are "twisting shear forces," which "twist one way [or] the other"—only two ways to twist! Maybe by "twisting" the author means that the field is one of torq
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by owendlamb 3y ago
I haven't read this, but I'm a fan of "But Never a Key," a song whose lyrics reference the story: https://dirtpoorrobins.bandcamp.com/track/but-never-a-key-de... https://open.spotify.com&